Heinrich Heine > Quotes

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
― Heinrich Heine

“Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid”
― Heinrich Heine

“In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.”
― Heinrich Heine

“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”
― Heinrich Heine

“I wept in my dreams.
I dreamed you lay in the grave;
I awoke, and the tears
still poured down my cheeks.

I wept in my dreams,
I dreamed you had left me;
I awoke and I went on weeping
long and bitterly.

I wept in my dreams,
I dreamed you were still kind to me;
I awoke, and still
the flow of my tears streams on.
”
― Heinrich Heine

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
― Heinrich Heine

“I live, which is the main point.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."

(Almansor)”
― Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine's gesammelte Werke

“There are more fools in the world than there are people.”
― Heinrich Heine

“All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it. ”
― Heinrich Heine

“Where books are burned, people will next be burned.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned".

(taken from the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.)”
― Heinrich Heine

“God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.”
― Heinrich Heine

“When words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”
― Heinrich Heine

“The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.”
― Heinrich Heine

“First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; -
Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein,
Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,
Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.

Es hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht;
Es hat mich schon längst um den Schlaf gebracht.
Ach! sputet Euch, Meister Zimmermann,
Damit ich balde schlafen kann.”
― Heinrich Heine, Das Buch Der Lieder

“Where one begins by burning books, one will end up burning people.”
― Heinrich Heine

“And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.”
― Heinrich Heine

“They that begin by burning books, end by burning men.”
― Heinrich Heine

“The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Iron helmets will not save/
Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Ревността наподобява повече завист, отколкото да е плод на някаква любов. А завистта е дребнав, пълзящ порок, в повечето случаи неоправдан и безпочвен. Ако има основателен повод за ревност, то тогава е излишно да се говори за любов. Само хората са толкова придирчиви. Пеперудата не пита цветето: "Друг целувал ли те е вече?". И цветето не пита: "Задиряла ли си друго цвете?”
― Heinrich Heine

“In dark ages, people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide, he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down,
In that window my love would appear;
She's long since gone away from this town,
But this house where she lived still remains here.

A man stands here too, staring up into space,
And wrings his hands with the strength of his pain:
It chills me, when I behold his pale face
For the moon shows me my own features again!

You spirit double, you specter with my face
Why do you mock my love-pain so
That tortured me here, here in this place
So many nights, so long ago?”
― Heinrich Heine

“A pine tree standeth lonely
In the North on an upland bare;
It standeth whitely shrouded
With snow, and sleepeth there.

It dreameth of a Palm tree
Which far in the East alone,
In the mournful silence standeth
On its ridge of burning stone.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Kalau orang sudah mulai membakar buku-buku, akhirnya mereka akan membakar manusia.”
― Heinrich Heine

“This was but a prelude;
where books are burnt
human-beings will be burnt
in the end”
― Heinrich Heine

“There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people”
― Heinrich Heine

“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen. (That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.)”
― Heinrich Heine

“The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-
beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Es una historia vieja que siempre sigue siendo nueva y, a quien le pasa, el corazón se le parte en dos.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Where books are burned, in the end people will burn.”
― Heinrich Heine

“آن‌جا که کتاب‌ها را می‌سوزانند، بلاخره مردم را هم می‌سوزانند.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.”
― Heinrich Heine

“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Where books are burned, they will in the end burn people too.”
― Heinrich Heine

“I have sown Dragon's teeth and reaped only fleas.”
― Heinrich Heine

“But that age … exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams.”
― Heinrich Heine